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remains that the eels descended during the floods when the nets had to 

 be removed. Even had more permanent structures been erected, and 

 in the case of the Bladnoch we had made use of a disused mill dam or 

 weir in which to construct two eel eyes, it appeared that fishing could not 

 have been carried on with any great success. The Bladuoch experiment 

 indeed came to an end after the disappearance, in a high flood, of the nets, 

 the Uve box, and the gangways. Similarly, in the case of the Thurso, 

 an early and severe frost lesiilted in ice in such quantities that when the 

 first floods came after thaw the poles were forced out of the river bed and 

 the nets much destroyed. In the estuary of the river Cree a fair amount 

 of success was obtained during the summer months, when the nets caught 

 yellow eels which apparently had not been up the river at all, but in the 

 main it appeared from the experiments that greater success, in Scotland, 

 is hkely to be secured by fishing comparatively small streams where the 

 force of water is not great, and where the volume can be more readily 

 controlled. 



